Listed below: dreams of centaurs and other human/equine mixes, plus some variant 'taurs built on similar body plans, like cattaurs, foxtaurs and cheetaurs. Kakalea is a whole world of centauroids; its webtour has over 100 dioramas full of gracile centauroid dancers each made of two Barbie dolls (caution: nudity!)

For the Greeks who invented the whole idea, centaurs seemed to have meant animality dominating humanity; though a few centaurs symbolized natural wisdom, most were brutal. Mine seem gentler--but then, I grew up in the 20th Century, whose atrocities are rooted not in animal passion but ideology. Discipline seems safer as a bedroom sport than a public ideal these days...

So I think my dream-centaurs mean harmony between body and mind. I concede that I draw them more like they're just sex symbols, which they also are for me... but that's not surprising. My self-image is equine--my very first memory is of being a horse, then waking up human, a human child, and my equine dreams have never stopped. I've been, loved, mated with, even married horses. I see and read horses like people, and now and then I've actually forgotten which species I'm talking with. When I meet people with horse auras, I know I've found friends.

So enjoy the pinups, but be aware there's something underneath the sexy fantasies of fusion. Freud was wrong--spirituality isn't always just a mask hiding sex. Sometimes it's the other way round.

CENTAUR AUDITION: by Wayan; 2012/1/7, a dream about undreams, and a sequel 2012/1/30, a Pygmalion dream
Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank...
CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH SYNDROME

CENTAUR BEACH: by Wayan; 1990. Two images from a set of recurring dreams.
Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why...

CENTAUR CIRCLES: by Wayan; 1991. Early digital painting of dream figure
An experiment with digital textures that fascinated me. Not a dream, just feels like it.

A CENTAUR GIRL AND HER DOG: by Wayan; 2002/9/18, dream figure but NOT dream plot
I had hay fever all day, and wished I was at ease in nature, and at ease with my nature. In heat, blissed out, and loved...
CAUTION: CANINE/CENTAUR ORAL SEX

CENTAURPEDE: by Wayan; a bizarre 1983/3/15 dream predicts a bizarre art job in 2002!
Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself...
CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE

CHAKAT: by Katie Hofgard; 2003/4/22?, a dream self-portrait
I dreamed I was a cattaur...

CLAN TAUR: by Wayan; recurrent dream-family (best example: 1987/1/9); pencil studies 1998-2002.
I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach...
CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES

CLAYMATES: by Wayan, 1968-70, three mythological claymation figures.
In my teens, I knew I wasn't human. So I sculpted and animated and fell in love with and worshiped furry figurines...

CLEO'S REVENGE: by Wayan, 2017/1/7, a sculpture based on a warning dream against hiding sexual attraction
I meet Cleo from the Monster High kids' movies. I hide that I'm attracted--that'd be pedophilia (even though Cleo's CENTURIES old.) But once I hide my Cleo-philia, ALL sexual feelings and memories vanish! I'm convinced "I'm sexless, I'm too ill." Cleo's curse!
CAUTION: SEX-DENIAL; NUDE CENTAUR

COLLISION COURSE: by Wayan; May 1998; digital sketch of waking life-situation.
Being a hippie artist in San Francisco today feels like being an animal in an African game park...

DALI CENTAUR: by Wayan; 1981/12/12; a surrealist nightmare.
I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong...
CAUTION: YUCK

DEER JESUS: by Wayan; 1988/12/25, a revisionist Christmas dream.
The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so...
CAUTION: NUDITY

EFFORT VERSUS APTITUDE: by Wayan, 2017/8/23, a dream about... oh, read the title.
I urge a cafe to host a talented Tarot reader with an amazing aura, but the owner says "Anyone can be psychic with practice." Oh? Can practice make you Einstein, too?

THE EVEREST MARATHON: by Wayan; 1986/4/12, a wild dream epic, part 3 of Unicorn Tag.
During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?

EXIT THROUGH THE DUNGEON: by Wayan, 1982/5/23, an experiment in automatic drawing that contained unexpected advice
I turned off my conscious judgment and drew. Two paths appeared--one leading to psychodrama, then prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork...
CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES

FLOWERHEADED CAT: by Wayan; 2005/8/17, two bizarre, sexy, advisory dreamlets
First, one of my co-workers starts flashing. Her boyfriend helps--flaps her skirt up to show she's naked beneath. What are they up to?
Then, in a dream-sculptor's studio, I pet a purring cat whose head is a huge calla lily! "Well," I think, "at least her pussy likes me..."
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PUNS, PETTING

FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14
For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. This year four needs came up over & over...

FOUR-LEGGED MONK: by Centaurquad; June 1983; a sexy transformation dream
My boyfriend's a student in an exotic monastery. But under his robe, he's gotten a bit exotic himself...
CAUTION: SEXUAL DREAM

GRIMOIRE AND PACT: by Wayan, 2013/8/4, two dreams about an infestation of... health? illness? sex? magic? WHAT?
1: Two sisters want to kiss me all over. But they lick everything; their family loves to collect a weird gut-fauna, letting them thrive on foods toxic to me...
2: Fairy eggs infest my home--become red worms, become tiny horses, become mothwinged hobbits, become powerful adult fairies. Who may be friendly...
CAUTION: NUDE EQUINES & FAE; PARASITES (OR SYMBIOTES?)

THE LIMP: by Wayan; 1986/7/18, a dream on difference
I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but...

KAKALEA: by Wayan; 2012/7/23 (ongoing); a good world on a bad hair day
We search for exoplanets whose stats are Earthlike. But mass, chemistry, warmth and air do not a biosphere make! Geography alone--the mere placement of lands and seas--can also make a world lush or barren...
CAUTION: CENTAUR BARBIE NUDITY

THE NESS MAN, or, HOW TO HEAL: by Wayan; 1994/4/13, a mytho-musical dream.
Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?

OMELET BEACH: by Wayan; 2007/1/15, a dream on how things look through your third eye
An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies’ energy fields more than surface forms...

NOUVELLE BARBIE BODS: by Ellen Frank (Patagia), 2012/12/22, a playful poem on a dream-diorama
I visited my friend Chris Wayan's workshop and found him building a dance troupe of joyfully obscene centaurs, out of Barbie dolls...

PEGATAURESS WITH BLUE WINGS: by Wayan; 1993/4/2 & 1997/11/19, a sculpture fusing two dreams.
I was a ballerina in blue who learned to fly; and I met a centauress who loved dance too. The dancers fused...

PENTALEMMA: by Wayan; 2002/3/10 to 2006/5/1?, a 13-page nondream improv-comic on our conflicting goals. Mine, at least!Hypnotized in therapy, I saw AT LEAST five competing goals I have to balance. So come tour the Inner Solar System of our desires...
CAUTION: NUDITY (BODY, HEART, BRAIN, SOUL)

PHOTOS LURE SOULS: by Wayan; 2016/3/12, dream of summoning spirits
I'm photographing lifesize furry statues. How explicit, how sexy? If I get shots they like, souls will be lured to enter their bodies and bring them alive...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES

PICNIC IN THE RUINS: by Wayan, 2002/9/18, digital painting of dream figure.
On an alternate Earth where centaurs lived in a beach town with old Roman ruins, a local girl invited me on a picnic...
CAUTION: NUDITY

THE PROWLER: by Wayan; 1997/2/4, an illustrated dreamtale.
My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder!

PUT TWICE AS MUCH IN: by Wayan; 2003/9/22, a dream warning how much it takes to change
All the claymation figures I made in my teens are gone but one. And the centauress has a broken hip and spindly leg.
I start to mend her, but I need TWICE the clay I thought...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY

THE SAN DIEGO CENTAURS: by Wayan; 1985/1/9, a slice-of-life dream.
In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard, till I reconnect with a centaur friend

SERRANA: by Wayan; 2MB, Oct-Dec 2004, a sculpture/webtour with 60 maps, photos and sketches
A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation...
CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY

SILKY AS A CATTAUR: by Wayan; 2014/1/4-2016/1, a soft-sculpture dream-portrait-plushie-sextoy
An ambitious freestanding lifesize sculpture of a feline centaur girl with working joints and muscles so she's posable. And huggable. And...
CAUTION: NUDE CATTAUR

SILKY AT THE GATE: by Wayan; 2016/2/26, dream of a statue come alive
My girlfriend, a lifesize doll in the shape of a feline centaur, gradually turns alive, walking around on her own and flirting with me...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT-TAUR

SISTERS OF THE INTERFACE: by Wayan; 1983/12/21, a shamanic dreamtale.
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...

STILTDOE AND CENBUCK: by Wayan; 1989/5/23-24, two punning deer-dreams
First a mutant doe with stilt legs has trouble finding a mate; then a centauroid buck with a parasol shows us he means... business.

TEN TRIALS: by Wayan; 101K, 1976/10/2, a dream of love distracted.
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we?
CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: by Wayan, 2002/3/17, digital study of dream figure--sort of
Usually I wobble on high heels--but with four feet, I may be stable enough to follow the Yellow Brick Road...
CAUTION: NUDITY

TOWER OF THE MARTIAN DEAD: by Wayan, 1983/7/7; a dream-poem of an exo-Valhalla
Climbing a mountain on Mars, I reach a hall where I'm transformed into a cryophilic being. Then I feast on methane soup with the heroic Martian dead...

TRITONIAN FOXTAUR U.: by Wayan; 2016/9/10, a wish-fulfilling dream set on Neptune's moon Triton (or is it Saturn's Titan?)
I'm an exchange student at the Solar System's best university for the magic arts; my classmates are methane-breathing foxtaurs...

VIRGIN ON THE VERGE: by Wayan, 1992. Digital picture-poem
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES

WHICH ROAD? 36K, 1999/1/13. Digital sketch of a dream.
I was on a path winding over grassy hills, while humans zoomed by on a freeway below...

VIXTORIA; by Wayan, 2016/8/24-2017/9/19; a soft-sculpture dream-portrait/plushie/sextoy
I dreamed I was an exchange student in a university on Triton, where I had an affair with a classmate, a cute centauroid vixen...
CAUTION: INTERSPECIES (AND INTERPLANETARY) SEX

WITCH AND WITTENS: by Wayan, 2012/2/20, a dream about sexual ambivalence
I never find girls I dislike hot... so why do this smugly seductive witch and all her pointy-hat minions simultaneously attract and repel me?
CAUTION: JUST... WRONG.

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